On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:10:19PM -0500, Matt Peter wrote: > hello, > > Is there a debian-way of viewing the changelog for an app? I can > usually find them .gz'd up on my system, but it's a hassle, is there > any simple way to view a changelog?
talk about FAQ! second time today!! look at the thread starting with [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject line "Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog" or install apt-listchanges [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show apt-listchanges Package: apt-listchanges Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 300 Maintainer: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 2.39 Depends: python (>= 2.2.2), apt (>= 0.5.3), python-apt, debconf, ucf Suggests: x-terminal-emulator, www-browser, debianutils Filename: pool/main/a/apt-listchanges/apt-listchanges_2.39_all.deb Size: 43186 MD5sum: 3a33050ba4003250a82ad2850b9f9624 Description: Display new Debian changelog entries from .deb archives apt-listchanges is a tool to show what has been changed in a new version of a Debian package, as compared to the version currently installed on the system. It does this by extracting the relevant entries from the Debian changelog file, usually found in /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.Debian.gz . It can be run on several .deb archives at a time to get a list of all of the changes that would be effected by installing or upgrading a group of packages. It can be configured to do this automatically during upgrades using apt. -- hugh
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